Ben Rhodes

Yeah, you said a lot that I wanted to break down here.

I mean, because there are different things that concern me here.

So let's take one that gets at your effort to introduce a bipartisan war powers resolution that you've been working on for some time now.

For people who don't know, this is essentially trying to insist that the United States return to a circumstance where the president cannot use military force without coming to Congress.

That's in the Constitution.

Right.

But part of what concerns me, right, and I think other people, is that he seems to be catching this regime change bug.

You know, even after the operation in Venezuela, he threatened the president of Colombia.

He threatened to go into Cuba.

He's talking again about Greenland.

It feels like this might not be the last one.

And that raises the question of what can be done to stop or slow this down.

Talk a little bit about what your effort might do to at least try to insert Congress into this mix so it's harder for Trump to kind of keep running this play again and again in other countries.

Yeah.

And well, there's another piece of this that I was wondering about, too, which is the war powers would try to constrain his capacity to do this, at least without Congress.

You mentioned the billions of dollars it would cost to do what he's talking about doing in Venezuela.

Like that oil infrastructure is dilapidated.

It's fallen in disrepair.

Yeah.

It's a multi-billion dollar.